I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

  • -- A. R. Ammons 安蒙斯

我不能告诉你一首诗从何而来,它是什么,它是干什么用的,别人也不能告诉你。我不能告诉你的原因是,一首诗的目的是超越叙述,通过燃烧得到认可。

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The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.

令人惊奇的是,几千年来,人们一直在不断地质疑和探索,并最终得出结论,某些事情发生的原因是人类无法知道的。

After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.

在第一次流产之后,我试着接受这样一种态度:这是我的身体在告诉我,这次怀孕并不是命中注定的。

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

没有二等公民这回事。这就像告诉我你可能有点怀孕了。

For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.

对我来说,诗歌是一种自我反省的机会。

I think of a poem as being deeper than headline news.

我认为诗歌比头条新闻更深刻。

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

欺诈是力量对理性的敬意。